ground-swell

As it did so the ground-swell began to act on it.By degrees the towering billows -- which seemed to rise out of a calm sea and rush to their destruction like walls of liquid glass -- caught it, dragged it on a little, and then let it slip.…Cited from Philosopher Jack, by R.M. Ballantyne

We next tried the fore-topsail, close-reefed, and this stood.It was well we did, for I feel certain the ship was now in the ground-swell.That black hill seemed ready to fall on our heads.…Cited from Ned Myers, by James Fenimore Cooper

There's not a bit of use his trying to get the better of me in that way.I should simply laugh at the worst ground swell he can produce.I hope he will ask me out yachting.…Cited from The Simpkins Plot, by George A. Birmingham

The weather was calm enough now, save for a heavy ground swell.The waters were marvelously blue, and overhead was the blue sky.…Cited from The Motor Girls on Waters, by Margaret Penrose

The sun was shining brilliantly, but the coast-line was veiled in a heavy haze.There was a fair ground-swell running, but no sea.…Cited from Our Navy in the War, by Lawrence Perry

The success on the court played the biggest part in the ground swell of fan support.Nebraska finished first in the Big 12 and 18th nationally in scoring defense in 2007-08, allowing just 60.7 points per game.…

There is a subtext to Davinche making him more difficult to pin down or stereotype, he is a pianist and guitarist, who composes and arranges all styles (grime, hip hop, contemporary RnB, and pop), He has performed a classical concert for the BBC.There is a ground swell of support and expectation surrounding the still young producer.…

Still, there was not a breath of wind.The sea was as smooth as glass, save for a slight ground swell.Although the mist did not seem to thicken, a strange darkness hung over the sky; as if, high up, a thick fog had gathered.…Cited from For Name and Fame, by G. A. Henty

Then they quite lost their reckoning, and sailed on and on, and all at once three great waves broke over their ship, one after the other.Then Flosi said they must be near some land, and that this was a ground-swell.A great mist was on them, but the wind rose so that a great gale overtook them, and they scarce knew where they were before they were dashed on shore at dead of night, and the men were saved, but the ship was dashed all to pieces, and they could not save their goods.…Cited from The Story of Burnt Njal, by Anonymous

The snow was violently driven about by partial whirlwinds, both on the ice, and from off the peaks of the high mountains, and filled the air.At the same time the ground-swell had increased so much that its effect upon the ice became very extraordinary and alarming.…Cited from MacMillan's Reading Books, Book V, by Various

Blanchard went home to breakfast, and though Chris discovered that something was amiss, she knew him too well to ask any questions.He ate in silence, the past storm still heaving in a ground-swell through his mind.That his wife should have stood up against him was a sore thought.…Cited from Children of the Mist, by Eden Phillpotts

When all the arches ring and yell, Then does the base make felt its true ground-swell.Cited from Faust, by Goethe

I recall vividly that there seemed to be a sort of ground swell between my desk and the blackboard, so that I never could walk confidently and evenly from one to the other.When by any chance I imagined your eyes were turned my way the ground swell became a tidal wave.…Cited from The Brown Study, by Grace S. Richmond

At 2 p.m. we emerged from this channel, which is called the Aitituba, or Arrozal, into the broad Bahia, and then saw, two or three miles away to the left, the red-tiled mansion of Caripi, embosomed in woods on the shores of a charming little bay.The water is very shallow near the shore, and when the wind blows there is a heavy ground swell.A few years previously, an English gentleman, Mr. Graham, an amateur naturalist, was capsized here and drowned with his wife and child, while passing in a heavily- laden montaria to his large canoe.…Cited from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Bates

A tumult of voices broke from the multitude -- voices of exultation, and anger, and horror, and strife.The floor of the cathedral was moved and lifted by a mysterious ground-swell.…Cited from The Valley of Vision,by Henry Van Dyke

One by one the long billows of plain fell behind, until our camp hill had turned blue behind us, and we seemed to be out in illimitable space, with no possibility, in an ordinary lifetime, of ever getting in touch with anything again.What from above had looked as level as a floor now turned into a tremendously wide and placid ground swell.As a consequence we were always going imperceptibly up and up and up to a long-delayed sky-line, or tipping as gently down the other side of the wave.…Cited from African Camp Fires, by Stewart Edward White

The snow was violently driven about by partial whirlwinds, both on the ice and from off the peaks of the high mountains, and filled the air.At the same time, the ground-swell had increased so much, that its effects upon the ice became very extraordinary and alarming.…Cited from The Moravians in Labrador, by Anonymous

However, as the missionaries saw no reason whatever for it, and only suspected that the Esquimaux wished to enjoy the company of their friends a little longer, they proceeded.After some time their own Esquimaux hinted that there was a ground-swell under the ice.It was then hardly perceptible, except on lying down and applying the ear close to the ice, when a hollow disagreeable grating and roaring noise was heard, as if ascending from the abyss.…Cited from The Moravians in Labrador, by Anonymous

His black hair heaved upon his skull like seaweed in a ground swell.Cited from Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse

The mossy earth began to rise and sink under my feet, like the waters in a ground-swell at sea.I stood still, in a state of idiot-wonder.…Cited from The Guilty River, by Wilkie Collins